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Teabaggers know they have l0st the fight over health care, and as such resorted to the lowest cards in their deck. Typical. Teabaggers, as I have stated over and over, are known to be a haven and home for racists and white supremacists. Today they looked like a bunch of torch-wielding-villagers-gone-ape-crap-crazy. This racist ignorance shown today is a further stain on those who have demonstrated for over a year and proved they have no ability to discourse in a civil fashion. They have finally shown once and for all what we said about them IS true. Now I have something to say to those despicable teabaggers who abused our time and patience over the past many months. Get the @&#@ out of the nation’s capital!

Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health-care reform bill, shouted “nigger” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.

The protesters also shouted obscenities at other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, lawmakers said.

“They were shouting, sort of harassing,” Lewis said. “But, it’s OK, I’ve faced this before. It reminded me of the ’60s. It was a lot of downright hate and anger and people being downright mean.”

Lewis said he was leaving the Cannon office building across from the Capitol when protesters shouted “Kill the bill, kill the bill,” Lewis said.

“I said ‘I’m for the bill, I support the bill, I’m voting for the bill,’ ” Lewis said.

A colleague who was accompanying Lewis said people in the crowd responded by saying “Kill the bill, then the n-word.”

“It surprised me that people are so mean and we can’t engage in a civil dialogue and debate,” Lewis said.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., said he was a few yards behind Lewis and distinctly heard “nigger.”

“It was a chorus,” Cleaver said. “In a way, I feel sorry for those people who are doing this nasty stuff – they’re being whipped up. I decided I wouldn’t be angry with any of them.”

Protestors also used a slur as they confronted Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., an openly gay member of Congress. A writer for Huffington Post said the crowd called Frank a “faggot.”

Frank told the Boston Globe that the incident happened as he was walking from the Longworth House office building to the Rayburn House office building, both a short distance from the Capitol. Frank said the crowd consisted of a couple hundred of people and that they referred to him as “homo.”

“I’m disappointed with the unwillingness to be civil,” Frank told the Globe. “I was, I guess, surprised by the rancor. What it means is obviously the health-care bill is proxy for a lot of other sentiments, some of which are perfectly reasonable, but some of which are not.”

“People out there today, on the whole, were really hateful,” Frank said. “The leaders of this movement have a responsibility to speak out more.”

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From MSNBC linked at the head of this post comes the following.

Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told a reporter that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the civil rights era, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the N-word, 15 times.” Both Carson and Lewis are black, and Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones also said that it occurred.

“It was like going into the time machine with John Lewis,” said Carson, a large former police officer who said he wasn’t frightened but worried about the 70-year-old Lewis, who is twice his age. “He said it reminded him of another time.”

Clyburn, who led fellow black students in integrating South Carolina’s public facilities a half century ago, called the behavior “absolutely shocking.”

“I heard people saying things today that I have not heard since March 15, 1960, when I was marching to try to get off the back of the bus,” Clyburn told reporters.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who is gay, said protesters shouted “abusive things” to him as he walked from the Longworth building to the Rayburn building. “It’s a mob mentality that doesn’t work politically,” he said.

Some protesters cursed at lawmakers and at one point — when Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) wanted to walk across the street to an office building — he was ushered into a car by his security detail and driven a couple hundred feet through the screaming crowd.

During the Bush years nobody seemed interested in doing anything to reform health care. Now suddenly there is a “better” plan.

Really?

How will that plan help the 33 million American without health care? How will that plan help someone if they are denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition? How will that plan help people fight the insurance company when are dropped because of an expensive procedure or surgery?

I’m betting you don’t have a plan. And I’m betting your objection with health care has nothing to do with health care at all.

Americans do not think we have lost in the battle to stop this horrible legislation. We understand that if this bill passes all of these people in DC who are not listening to the American people will be voted out and then the work will begin to get this law off the books and a plan that works for ALL Americans not just a few.

Steve Kagen has announced he will vote yes, I have never been involved in a political race before but I will work to defeat him in Nov. Americans are not going to accept this bill, it is clear by all of the voices who oppose it, 60% of America,